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How Much Plastic is in the Ocean?

Posted July 09, 2010 7:58 AM

From Discovery News - Top Stories:

Stiv Wilson of the ocean conservation group 5 Gyres has made a first attempt to tally how much plastic is in the global ocean. We've all heard about the Texas-sized "garbage patch" swirling in the North Pacific, and recently we've been warned that the Atlantic's got a plastic problem, too. Rather than distinct patches, the planet's interconnected watery parts are effectively a thin soup of plastic refuse, with perhaps larger concentrations of rubbish in five large rotating gyres of water like the Pacific's.

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07/10/2010 12:19 PM

I wounder what % of ships (navy, merchant , cruise ships etc.) recycle/ burn their plastic garbage. couldn't,t they be forced to ? How much do they put into the ocean?. Jacques Cousteau foundations are hard at work on this one.

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